These pages are designed for use to aid discipleship among Christians through individual Bible study, Cell groups, Home groups, or for meeting one to one. If you wish, you could use the questions, while leaving the group to choose their own translation of the Bible.
Help for New Christians - Next Steps
Having gone through the basics of the Christian life, you are now ready for the next section - the Discipleship section. This section goes through some of the key elements of what Christianity is about by presenting you with the relevant Bible text and letting you make the discoveries. There are a few ways of doing this. You can go to the click on discoveries on the top bar and explore. Alternatively you could use this page as a starting place and go with my choice of some key topics.
In becoming a Christian a new life has begun in you! The life of God, by His Spirit is at work in you. Any life needs feeding. With neglect life becomes impoverished, so how do you nurture this new life? Fundamentally, the new life is nurtured through engaging with God through His Word, and through Praying to Him. This page and the ones that follow on Prayer and Getting into the Word will help you make a start. A key element to this is what Christians call a Quiet Time or Devotional Time.
The Bible tells us to add to your faith goodness. Having started to nurture your spiritual life, the next port of call is to start building on it. The start point here is to do what you know is good. This can at times seem risky, but this is the essence of a life of faith.
As you begin to read the Bible, your understanding of what good is will begin to change. So, that same passage (2 Peter 1:5-9 NIV) goes on, “add to your ... goodness knowledge.” That is good, and there is no need to wait till you are perfect to start. If you are going completely wrong the Lord will help you to sort that out as well.
To give you some pages to look at in order to explore what is good, here are some to start.
Early on in Israel’s history God gave 10 commands. The first 5 are about our relationship with God. They are in the next column.
Build on your Faith
Get to know the Lord
A Balanced Christian Life
For each of the topics below, I am sending you to the headline page. The pages you want will be seen on the lower tier of links in the bar at the left called ‘pages below this one.’
God calls us to be like Him. So, that begs the question - what is He like?
Another aspect to being a Christian is that God gives us a new identity. In God’s eyes, and soon in the eyes of others, we are changed people. Here are some of the ways we have changed.
Jesus summarised the Christian life as Love the Lord God and Love others. How does that work out in a daily life? How do you start to live this out?
An Illustration of the Christian Life.
Keeping Jesus Central
The Obedient Christian in Action
Love for believers
Engaging with those who do not yet know Jesus.
Meeting with God in His Word
Meeting with God in Prayer
The beginning of a life with Jesus is often an unsettling time. Many questions come up. Here are some helps on some of them.
I thought I would never do anything wrong again, but now I have. Can I be forgiven?
If I drift away from God, will he reject me?
Can I be sure that God will always keep me no matter what?
I am struggling with the whole issue of science and Christianity.
Questions that often come up
